Killer Thriller: Something was OFF about Scott Peterson and Court TV's Ted Rowlands knew it!
Legally Brunette
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Veteran Court TV journalist Ted Rowlands interviewed Scott Peterson just days after Laci Peterson vanished, and he says something immediately felt wrong. Ted takes us inside those early encounters, the questions about the case that still don't have answers, and the bizarre behavior that made him suspicious from the start.
He also reveals why Amber Frey's recorded phone calls became the moment Scott Peterson's defense began to crumble.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.6 | Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes present. |
| 0:13.5 | Killer Thriller with your host, Alisa Donovan. |
| 0:19.4 | Hey, everyone. Elisa Donovan here, and this is killer thriller. |
| 0:23.7 | Few true crime stories have gripped America like the murder of Lacey Peterson. |
| 0:28.9 | A beautiful pregnant wife vanishes on Christmas Eve. |
| 0:32.9 | Her seemingly perfect husband goes on national television insisting he's innocent. |
| 0:38.5 | Then the lies, |
| 0:45.1 | affairs, media frenzy, and courtroom bombshells begin piling up. The story became one of the biggest true crime obsessions of the 2000s and inspired the TV movie, The Perfect Husband, the Lacey Peterson's story. |
| 0:53.4 | Today, we're joined by veteran court TV journalist |
| 0:56.5 | Ted Rowlands, who covered the case from the very beginning and interviewed Scott Peterson |
| 1:01.2 | inside his home while Lacey was still missing. Ted, welcome to killer thriller. I'm so thrilled |
| 1:08.0 | to meet you. Oh, glad to be with you as well. It's a great to see you. I've watched you |
| 1:14.0 | many times, but to actually meet you is fantastic. Oh, thank you. Well, ditto, because I have been so |
| 1:22.2 | just impressed with the trajectory of your career, which essentially, the first question being, |
| 1:29.6 | did you think that you'd still be talking about Scott Peterson all these years later? |
| 1:34.1 | No. |
| 1:35.2 | I met him the day on the 26th, the morning of the 26th of December back in 2002 and you know it was just another missing person story |
| 1:48.8 | but there was something we went to my photographer and went to his door asked for an interview |
| 1:54.2 | and he refused and he didn't want to be on camera which is so different than any other missing |
| 2:00.1 | family member because you want everyone |
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